Overview
- Examines a wide range of screen media cultures and practices from the 1930s to the present day
- Explores in the first collection of its kind the history of the zoo
- Addresses the history of human-animal relations by examining how animals are exhibited to and encountered by audiences via the close relationship between the zoo and moving image media
Part of the book series: Screening Spaces (SCSP)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book is the first critical anthology to examine the controversial history of the zoo by focusing on its close relationship with screen media histories and technologies. Individual chapters address the representation of zoological spaces in classical and contemporary Hollywood cinema, documentary and animation, amateur and avant-garde film, popular television and online media. The Zoo and Screen Media: Images of Exhibition and Encounter provides a new map of twentieth-century human-animal relations by exploring how the zoo, that modern apparatus for presenting living animals to human audiences, has itself been represented across a diverse range of moving image media.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michael Lawrence is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of Sabu and the co-editor, with Laura McMahon, of Animal Life and the Moving Image.
Karen Lury is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK and the author of The Child in Film: Tears, Fears and Fairytales. She is an editor of the international film and television studies journal, Screen.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Zoo and Screen Media
Book Subtitle: Images of Exhibition and Encounter
Editors: Michael Lawrence, Karen Lury
Series Title: Screening Spaces
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53561-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54342-4Published: 24 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-53561-0Published: 24 September 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 290
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: Film History, Film Theory, Media and Communication, Animation, Documentary